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Corlea, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 044

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    these houses used to go up to a place called Pratts where there were turnips. They took five bags with them. The owner of the field gave one ewt of turnips for one shilling. They would carry home the turnip on their backs. They used to boil the turnips and put Indian meal on them and with that made bread. When the blight came on the potatoes they people went to Ballytrain, Co Monaghan and got blessed water and shook it on the potato stalks
    Told to me by
    Tom White
    Lisagoan
    Kingscourt
    Age 62
    Peggy White
    Lisagoan
    Kingscourt
    20-7-38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy White
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Tom White
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Lisagoan, Co. Cavan